When I came from
sauna at about 22:40 (daylight saving time) I saw an aurora stripe and
took some pics. I went back out at midnight. There was colourful auroras
with a red glow from high altitude clouds (sunset?). There was also
some red and a hint of blue in the auroras, too. At about 00:40 the
clouds destroy the view.

Even with the northern sky still slightly illuminated by the sun, the first substorm at 1950 UTC (2251 local time) has been visible in all its amazing intensity. Faint auroras remained visible for many hours throughout the night.

These are the
first aurora pictures taken outside my home this season. These were
taken at 00.45 am and it is not totaly dark 60 kms above the arctic
circle until September but tonights display was so strong I took many
pictures.

The auroras
were barely visible to the naked eye, but a strong colour was evident
in the ptctures. A high ISO was uses to capture the range of colour
as well as some meteors left over from the Perseids.